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I finished the first draft of my first novel last week, which gave me a great sense of accomplishment and pride, along with excitement and some relief.
Since then though, as I've been reading the whole book from start to finish for the first time, I've realized that a whole new project has begun. And this is not the part of writing that I find to be fun; the editing and the re-writes...

It's an amazing process though really. You can almost see that I was probably in a different place in my life during different sections, just by the writing, and scenes that I thought worked for me then, need to be tweaked some now. I know full well that going through this process will make the novel much better in the end, but right now, having to actually do the work just sucks! :)

I am offended as a man and someone who lives in this country...
I just saw another disgusting HUMMER commercial. A guy is in line at a supermarket and the clerk is scanning his package of tofu (which I don't like, by the way, so this is not a vegetarian rant. I love meat!) and it won't go through. He looks behind him and sees that the man to his left has a pile of meat on the belt. He looks embarassed and then flees the store, runs out and buys a Hummer!
And the AD say, "Restoring the balance of man."

So is it not manly to eat tofu or NOT drive a Hummer?? These commercials, the Hummer in general, insult me in so many ways that I can barely explain them all.

LONDON - Jockey Paul O'Neill apologized Tuesday for head-butting his horse at a race last weekend. The Horseracing Regulatory Authority is holding an inquiry after reviewing TV footage of the incident at the Stratford races on Sunday.

Um...There's nothing that I can say here that will be any funnier than the real headline...

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IRVING, Texas -- Terrell Owens says plenty in his new book. Except for one word he now claims he didn't say. But making a big deal of an apparent misquotation -- despite the sentence being written in the first-person -- is the kind of media nitpicking Owens would lament in his 242-page book.

Only sport's biggest blowhard would claim he was misquoted in his own autobiography... When I was a kid, were the athletes that I looked up to really this much of a jackass, or is this a recent phenomenon?

Former CIA officer sues Cheney, Libby, Rove over leak
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, Valerie Plame and her husband, Joseph Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador, accused Cheney, Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby of revealing Plame's CIA identity in seeking revenge against Wilson for criticizing the Bush administration's motives in Iraq.

Good for them!
I swear our country is being run by 4th graders...

"Hey, Dicky, did you hear that Joey was making fun of the way we were playing dodgeball?"
"Yeah, I heard, Scooter (no need to make up a nickname here...). Let's go tell Mrs. Post that we saw him and his girlfriend making out in the bushes."

By Pete Yost, Associated Press Writer July 12, 2006 WASHINGTON --Now that Karl Rove won't be indicted, now that the president won't fire him, now that it really doesn't matter anymore, more details of the Valerie Plame leak investigation trickle out. In his latest syndicated column, released Wednesday, columnist Robert Novak revealed his side of the story in the Plame affair, saying Rove was a confirming source for Novak's story outing the CIA officer, underscoring Rove's role in a leak that President Bush once promised to punish. As Rove's legal problems grew a year ago, the president qualified his earlier pledge to fire anyone involved in the Plame leak, saying it would apply to "someone who committed a crime."